Caribbean shadows & Victorian ghosts: women's writing and decolonization

by Renk, Kathleen J.

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Title Statements

Full title :Caribbean shadows & Victorian ghosts : women's writing and decolonization / Kathleen J. Renk.

Summary

"In Caribbean Shadows and Victorian Ghosts, Kathleen J. Renk demonstrates how contemporary Anglophone Caribbean women's writing radically subverts the powerful myth of the family as it is constructed in nineteenth-century British and colonial texts. Reading the fiction of Jamaica Kincaid, Dionne Brand, Jean Rhys, Erna Brodber, and Michelle Cliff alongside British texts such as Dickens's Great Expectations and Bronte's Jane Eyre, she argues that Anglophone Caribbean women writers create new narratives that simultaneously "bury" Victorian ghosts--the discourse on the Victorian mother, the plantation family discourse, and the discourse on madness--and "catch" Caribbean shadows--the histories of forgotten or elided Caribbean ancestors and narratives of resistance. Book jacket."--Jacket.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1999.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University Press of Virginia
Place of Publication:Charlottesville
Language:eng
Publication Date:1999.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (ix, 174 pages : : illustrations)

Edition Identifiers

oclc:on1148205442
LC Classification:PR9205.05
Dewey Decimal:810.9/9287/09729

Subjects

18.07 English literature outside Europe… Anglophone Karibik Art de conter dans la littérature Caribbean Area Caribbean literature (English) -- Histo… Caribbean literature (English) -- Women… Comparative literature -- Caribbean (En… Comparative literature -- English and C… Criticism, interpretation, etc Cultural pluralism in literature Décolonisation dans la littérature Decolonization in literature Dekolonisatie Diversité culturelle dans la littérature Écrits de femmes antillais (anglais) --… Engels Englisch English literature -- Women authors -- … Femmes et littérature -- 20e siècle. --… Femmes et littérature -- Histoire -- 20…